[ACCEPTED]-What's the meaning of 'soup' in jsoup and Beautiful Soup?-jsoup

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It's BeautifulSoup, and is named after so-called 'tag soup', which 4 refers to "syntactically or structurally 3 incorrect HTML written for a web page", from 2 the Wikipedia definition.

jsoup is the Java 1 version of Beautiful Soup.

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According to wiki "Beautiful Soup is 4 a Python library for parsing HTML documents 3 (including having malformed markup, i.e. non-closed 2 tags, so named after Tag soup)."

Those 1 were named after Tag soup

Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Soup

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Beautiful Soup is used for web-scraping 6 and a great tool for extracting information 5 from large unstructured data. As a Python 4 library used for pulling data from HTML, XML, and 3 other markup language files, Beautiful Soup 2 can extract articles and content and turn 1 it into a Python list or dictionary.

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